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Although France has the greatest number of busy airports, it ranks 13th when taking into account the number of tourists it receives or its population. Romania, on the other hand, which has leads in number of airports per tourist ranks 19th in this metric and has the tenth greatest number of airports in the Union.

Sweden, Finland, and Greece lead in number of busy airports per capita possibly due to the two Nordic states' long and narrow geography and Greece's multitude of islands. These are the only three states with more than three busy airports per million inhabitants. Luxembourg, Croatia, Cyprus, and Malta have more than two airports per million inhabitants while Portugal, Denmark, Ireland, and Estonia each have more than one. It is interesting to see that two geographically large states are followed by geographically small states.